First YouTube space facility in Middle East region opens in Dubai
Dubai: Google-owned video platform YouTube opened a "YouTube Space" in Dubai, the first-of-its-kind in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Located at Dubai Studio City, the YouTube facility aims "to support the growing creator community in the MENA region by giving them access to a state-of-the-art production space," Xinhua cited state news agency WAM as saying.
The space, which is the tenth in the world, is dedicated to YouTube content creators who would have free access to high-end audio, visual and editing equipment in addition to training programmes, workshops and courses.
More than 440,000 creators have visited the nine YouTube Space facilities around the world since the programme was first launched in 2012, said David Ripert, Head of YouTube Spaces in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"Creators are the heartbeat of YouTube and supporting them has long been one of our most important priorities," Ripert was quoted as saying.
"As a platform, YouTube provides a blank canvas for creative expression and the Space will be one of the tools creators use to tell their own stories," Ripert noted.
The MENA region has more than 200 YouTube channels with over a million subscribers, and over 30,000 channels are subscribed by more than 10,000 users, Robert Kyncl, Chief Business Officer of YouTube, was quoted as saying.
The Arab world has experienced a 160-per cent increase in the number of channels uploaded from MENA countries in the past three years.
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Woman strangles son over dirtied clothes, missing school books in Gurugram: Police
Gurugram, May 16: The woman who was arrested for allegedly killing her 8-year-old son revealed that she committed the crime in a fit of rage when he returned home from school in dirtied clothes and two of his books were missing, police said on Thursday.
The accused, Poonam Devi, was arrested on Tuesday and was produced in court on Thursday. The court sent her to judicial custody, they said.
The police had earlier suspected that the woman killed her son after he came to know of her alleged illicit relationship with a man.
"During the police interrogation, Devi revealed that on Monday, when her 8-year-old son Karthik returned from school, his clothes were smeared with wall putty and he had also lost two books. In a fit of rage, she first removed his clothes and made him stand outside their house," Assistant Commissioner of Police Varun Dahiya said.
"When he insisted on going to some shop, she strangled him with her ‘chunni',” ACP Dahiya said.
The matter came to light on Monday when the police received a call from a private hospital regarding the death of a child, police said.
The victim's father, Arvind Kumar, who works as a labourer, spotted injury marks on the neck of his and claimed that he was murdered. Following this, he filed a complaint at the Sector 18 police station, police said.
In his complaint, he said that a neighbour informed him that his son had fallen ill. When he reached home, he found him saw lying unconscious and his wife was crying next to him. They rushed him to a hospital where the doctors declared him brought dead, they said.
During the investigation, the police identified the victim's mother, Devi as a suspect and arrested her. She later confessed to the crime and was in police remand for a day, they said.
The family hails from Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, they added.
